vii, 312 pages ; 22 cm

You won't find a style that can match Sidney Zion's for wit, savvy, clarity, fearlessness and vision. So unique is his voice that aficionados don't need a byline to know who they're reading, the lead sentence tells them. On the other hand, they don't know what he's going to say. Sidney Zion is as unpredictable as young love. And as versatile as old love. Ever since he left the courtroom for the newspaper city room, Mr. Zion has engaged and enraged with his reportage and views on crime, politics, war, music, sports, law, theater and the way we live. He was an award-winning reporter for The New York Times, a columnist for The New York Post and New York magazine, and his work has appeared in magazines and newspapers around the world. This book celebrates his 30th anniversary as a journalist, and his first collection since Read All About It! Since his recent novel, Markers, he has written a column for the New York Observer

If you are a Sidney Zion fan, we don't have to sell you. If you're new, you're going to thank us, guaranteed

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-304) and index

I. The Jewish Mafia. Kosher Nostra Cocktail. Fixing Little Mendel. Bugsy & Meyer. Growing Up With The Mob. Champ Segal. Israel Schawarzberg. Who's Crazy Now? -- II. Saloon Songs. Singalong Sam. Noonday Sun? Only For Mad Dogs and Joggers. Sobriety: A Dangerous Thing? Don't Blame Johnnie Walker. The Cigar Crisis. Reaching From a Check. A Unit on Guys and Dolls. Broadway My Way. Feeling Runyonesque -- III. Sex, Drugs, Lies and Laws. Sol Wachtler as Godfather. William Kennedy Smith and Trial By Headlines. Anita Hill and Uncle Tom. Uncle Nunchick and the Floozie. How To Save Roe vs. Wade. Blackmailers and AIDS. Meanwhile, England Sleeps -- IV. Pols, Presidents and Conspiracies. Bush Is A Dead Bagel. Brain-Dead Journalists (and a little oral sex). Bush's Anti-Israel Policy. Guys I Like. Character, Taste and the President. Jack Kennedy and The New York Post. The Conspiracy Theory. JFK: The Fantasy. The Hiss Case. Alger Hiss, Esq. Professor Corey Buries the Rosenberg Judge

V. Blacks, Jews, Greeks and Sinatra. The Jeffries Jive. Booze and the Jews. Pogrom in Brooklyn. Unlikely Allies: Jews and Jews. Bigotry on the Side. Call it Sleep. Sabra, Shatila & Iraq. Macedonia & Sinatra -- VI. Tales of Old Passaic. The Phantom and Father. Aunt Geshka the Bootlegger. Bullet Vote, Dummy! Rutgers vs. The Wonder Team, 1920's -- VII. Kaddish. Bill Douglas. Fred Rodell. Dancing in the Dark. Alden Whitman. A Girl Named Libby. Hospitals Can Be Deadly

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